John Safran
speaker
891 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
John Safran’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But instead of, yeah, National Geographic-ing it, I was like, here's a photo of my ex-girlfriend.
Here's a letter from my ex-girlfriend.
Let's go visit some voodoo priests.
And then you got to see the process of the voodoo through my, like, petty personal story.
And when I did that...
I was like, this is somehow just, it was like, this is what I should be doing.
I should be kind of like telling these personal stories that speak to these bigger things.
And there's all this stuff going on there.
Like, for instance, it's totally obnoxious on one level to kind of make everything about yourself.
But on this other level, like the audience is aware that I'm aware.
So there's that going on.
And so there's a lot of stuff going on.
And also, I think...
I think – and I was like young at the time.
I wasn't like – so things were sort of like subconscious or whatever like that.
I think I did kind of feel it was a bit –
like on the nose to be like pointing a camera at other people and like, oh, look at this, these interesting foreigners or whatever.
It just seemed like, and it seemed just more, I was just way more comfortable with throwing myself in there and being part of it all and just, and also I think people, other people appreciated it, that you sort of,
Like on the ground, back then at least, like I got good feedback.
And I think everything I've done since then has been this –
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